ninjaruski: I have been Rose’s human for a little over four years, and Rose has been my cat fo
ninjaruski:I have been Rose’s human for a little over four years, and Rose has been my cat for about the same amount of time. While most people describe cats as fiercely independent, aloof, and possessed of a sort of arrogant demeanor, I do not think that this is the case. I think cats enter into an interdependent relationship with their humans, maybe even more so than canines.It has been a feature of my relationship with Rose that every time I am in some kind of emotional distress, whether it manifests visibly or not, she knows. She knows the moment I sit down, get off the phone, walk in the door. She knows that I am hurting, and she knows that I need to be comforted.The Saturday after my ex left for good, all I pretty much did was stay in bed. Normally Rose will leave my bedroom and go for a prowl, that kind of thing, but on this day she stayed with me in my room. It was not merely that she occupied the window sill as normal: she took up the space closest to me and kept licking me, as if to say “I know you’re wounded somehow, and all my instincts say that this will make it better, so I will keep doing this.“She seems to know exactly when I need her, regardless of the activity that she was doing before. There have been moments where I’ve been emotionally drained, just done with everything, and Rose will saunter into my room, climb on my lap, and try to make everything okay again.This is why she is my cat and I am her human. Without her, I think I might have gone to pieces so many times. -- source link